Farm economic sustainability in the European Union: A pilot study
Farm economic sustainability in the European Union: A pilot study
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欧盟农业经济可持续性：试点研究
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2016
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H. Vrolijk
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C. O’Donoghue;Simon Devisme;M. Ryan;Ricky Conneely;Patrick R. Gillespie;H. Vrolijk
农业经济可持续性的测量在最近一段时间里得到了间歇性的学术兴趣，而概念性的讨论往往是相当有限的。此外，这一概念在该部门困难时期受到更多关注。衡量农场的生存能力是丰富这些讨论的一个重要前提。因此，有必要制定更全面和详细的衡量方法，以便更清楚地说明该部门的可行性和脆弱程度。本文重新关注这一问题，使用一系列欧盟成员国在农场层面收集的试点数据集，这有助于评估另一类可行性，即经济上可持续的农场，即经济上脆弱但被认为是可持续的农场。报告显示了接受调查的八个会员国在可行性和经济可持续性方面的差异。这种分析对衡量生存能力所包括的因素以及用于界定生存能力的最低收入都很敏感。虽然这是一项试点研究，但它提高了我们对影响跨国可行性和可持续性评价的因素以及可以提高可行性水平的政策工具的理解。
The measurement of farm economic sustainability has received intermittent academic interest in recent times, while the conceptual discussions are often quite limited. Moreover, this concept receives more attention at periods of diffi culty for the sector. The measurement of farm viability is an important precondition to enrich these discussions. Therefore, it is necessary to develop more comprehensive and detailed measurement techniques to provide more clarity on viability and vulnerability levels in the sector. This paper refocuses attention on this issue, using a pilot dataset collected at farm level across a range of EU Member States which facilitates the assessment of an additional category of viability, namely that of economically sustainable farms, i.e. farms that are economically vulnerable but which are deemed sustainable by the presence of off-farm income. Differences in viability and economic sustainability across the eight surveyed Member States are shown. The analysis is sensitive to the factors included in the measurement of viability as well as to the threshold income used to defi ne viability. Although this is a pilot study, it enhances our understanding of the factors affecting cross-country evaluation of viability and sustainability, and the policy instruments that could improve viability levels.